Reconstruction

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1) After the Civil War, the South was in a state of:

2) What was the purpose of Reconstruction?

3) What was the purpose of Reconstruction?

4) President Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction was on the South.

5) According to President Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction.

6) Which group challenged Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction?

7) How did their radical plan differ from Lincoln’s plan?

8) This new plan for Reconstruction was _.

9) Lincoln does not fulfill his plan for Reconstruction because he was _.

10) __ becomes the next President of the United States of America.

11) Johnson’s Reconstruction policy for the South was _.

12) Which agency was established to give food and medicine to blacks and whites of the South?

13) What did the Thirteenth (13 ) Amendment do?

14) Who had power in the South during this first attempt at Reconstruction?

15) What is the name of the new laws passed in the South by these leaders?

16) The purpose of these new laws was to?

17) These laws essentially recreated which institution?

18) Why would Northerners dislike these new laws?

19) What is the name of the economic system created in the South after the Civil War?

20) What were the landowner’s responsibilities in this new system?

21) What were the Freedman’s responsibilities in this new system?

22) Why did the Freedmen stay in this system?

23) What did the Fourteenth Amendment do?

24) Describe the powers of the Reconstruction Act of 1867.

25) The President after Lincoln was _.

26) Who were the Freedmen?

27) Who were the scalawags?

28) Who were the carpetbaggers?

29) What did the Fifteenth (XV) Amendment do?

30) Who had power in the South during this second attempt at Reconstruction?

31) What was the Southern white reaction to the second attempt at Reconstruction?

32) What was one group that led this Southern response?

33) The Federal government responded to this group by passing the _.

34) This new law _.

35) By 1872, these people were in power in the South.

36) These new leaders passed these laws.

37) These laws created _.

38) What term describes the legal separation of the races.

39) Which Supreme Court decision upheld the Constitutionality of these new laws?

40) Who can overturn a Supreme Court decision?

41) How did white Southerners maintain their political power after Reconstruction?

42) What were "poll taxes"?

43) Why were poor whites not effected by the “poll taxes”?

44) Which Supreme Court decision declared that separate can not be equal?




Why was Reconstruction a social, economic and political failure?
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